Midori Toda

An Outpatient-based Survey about the Recognition of Locomotive Syndrome and the Results of the Loco-check at a University Hospital in Tokyo

Taketo Okubo, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Takayuki Kawasaki, Keisuke Akaike, Midori Toda, Naoko Okubo, Daisuke Kubota, Kenta Mukaihara, Yongji Kim, Takafumi Kaketa, Yasuhiro Homma, Norio Shimanouchi, Tsuyoshi Saito, Tatsuya Takagi & Kazuo Kaneko · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2014

Background: To prevent locomotor dysfunction, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the concept of locomotive syndrome (LS) in 2007, and has carried out many campaigns to increase the awareness of LS. Recently, the JOA reported that 26.6% of people recognized LS in...